With the help of ChatGPT, I have put together the following structured explanation showing why OpenSeesPy is genuinely essential in modern structural-engineering workflows. Why and When to Choose OpenSeesPy After finishing the last blog, I found myself reflecting on how the narrative leaned heavily toward Tcl-based OpenSees  as the “serious,” high-performance, memory-efficient choice. And in a sense, that’s true: when it comes to raw computational efficiency and handling very

How Tcl, Python, and parallel patterns chnage what "using more memory" actually means This post is another postcard from one of my travels through the looking glass with ChatGPT — which means it’s not always obvious what’s solid ground and what might be a GPT hallucination. My goal here is not to hand you a final answer, but to give you enough structure that you start questioning what you think you know about memory in OpenSees. In this second memory post, I’m zooming out fro

I asked ChatGPT.... I guess I did fry my computer!!! As usual, my objective is to leave you with more questions than when you arrived, so take this content with a grain of salt, it was ALL GENERATED BY CHATGPT, WITH MY PROMPTING AND CONTRIBUTION. SO IT MAY BE WRONG!!!! How Jupyter Notebooks Manage Memory Short answer: ✔ Memory is managed on the server side  — by the machine where the kernel is running.❌ It is not tied to the client/browser . Your browser is only a “window” in

Here is what I think -- with the help of ChatGPT In structural engineering, most of us are still wrestling with how generative AI  fits into our workflows—drafting analyses, summarizing design criteria, assisting with documentation, or helping with code navigation. It feels new, disruptive, and not fully trustworthy yet. But outside our discipline, the engineering world has already moved forward. The new frontier isn’t generative AI—it’s agentic AI : systems that act , reason

There’s been growing interest in developing GPU-based approaches for OpenSees. That’s exciting work, and it’s important to encourage...

Why Earthquake Design Allows Higher Collapse Risk (and Why That’s Okay) As you know, I am one of the proponents of a proposal that is...

I asked ChatGPT: "I have noticed that when I criticize the technical content of a linked-in post, the other person's response addressed...

In my web development I have been working directly with Javascript and HTML -- I'm a fan of working with the raw language. So when...

is ChatGPT my tech-sherpa or shaman.... let's unpack that!

Yes you read that right: Jupyter BOOKs , not notebooks.... I've been asked to look into Jupyter books instead of just plain markdown for...

As you know, I like to break my input into several smaller files. While packaging code into functions is great for reusability, it...

I have been using concurrent.futures for a while now, but ChatGPT keeps mentioning multiprocessing and not concurrent futures.... so I...

Lot's of content out there showing you how to run each of these, but i have not found a detailed enough description of these two...

The map method confuses me, so I typically use the submit method. I am hoping ChatGPT helps me understand it better, so I know when to...

🧠 What Is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is an open-source platform  for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized...

I thought Node.JS was just javascript..... so I asked ChatGPT: "what is the difference between javascript and node.JS" And here is the...

Now that I know I want to process my data in a Lambda function in AWS (YES I LOVE LAMBDAS ON AWS!!!), I had one more question for...

I asked ChatGPT the following question today, I'm excited about the answer it gave me and I thought it might provide useful insight for...

I love applying the Socratic method to my own learning—question everything! This often leads to fascinating conversations with ChatGPT...

The NEHRI SimCenter has developed a very useful set of tools. There is one problem: they do so much, it's impossible to put that into a...

I now wanted to learn how they are used, this may help me understand them better.... Awesome! Let's go through two real-world scenarios...

Awesome! Let’s go step by step through running a simulation in EE-UQ  to analyze how a 5-story reinforced concrete building  responds to...

Great! Let's go step by step through running an optimization and uncertainty quantification (UQ) analysis  in quoFEM . We'll optimize the...

The two example scenarios for EE-UQ and quoFEM were nice, and they showed their strength. However, they were for very different systems,...